more footnotes date March 2011 Infobox military unit unit name Wehrmacht image File Balkenkreuz.svg 110px caption The straight armed Balkenkreuz , a stylized version of the Iron Cross , the emblem of the Wehrmacht ... Civil War br World War II anniversaries decorations battle honors The Wehrmacht IPA de ve maxt De Wehrmacht pronunciation.ogg literally, defensive might , or more accurately, defense forces ... German Workers Party assumed control of the German government in 1933, the term Wehrmacht generically ..., thus, Britische Wehrmacht denoted British defence forces. The term Wehrmacht is in Article 47 of the 1919 ... Wehrmacht des Reiches The National President holds supreme command of all armed forces of the nation ... as Wehrmacht in 1935. After World War II 1939 45 , the Allies abolished the Wehrmacht. In 1955, when ... In German language German and English usage, Wehrmacht denotes the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Using Wehrmacht to denote only the Heer land forces is inaccurate nevertheless, it is a misusage common in English writing. For branch of service identification, Wehrmacht vehicles bore alpha numeric identity .... Waffen SS and Wehrmacht The Waffen SS , the combat branch of the Schutzstaffel SS the Nazi Party s paramilitary organization , became the de facto fourth branch of the Wehrmacht , as it expanded from three regiments to 38 divisions by 1945. Although the SS was autonomous and existed in parallel to the Wehrmacht ... High Command of the Armed Forces Oberkommando der Wehrmacht , OKW or the Supreme High Command of the Army ... each year. The conscription law introduced the name Wehrmacht , so not only can this be regarded as its founding date, but the organization and authority of the Wehrmacht can be viewed as Nazi creations ... and tank marking in late World War I , beginning in March and April 1918. The existence of the Wehrmacht ... in the Wehrmacht during its existence from 1935 1945 is believed to have approached 18.2 million. This figure ... who ever served in the Wehrmacht , and not the force strength of the Wehrmacht at any point. Command ... more details
Die Wehrmacht was a German Military magazine , which was published from 1936 to 1944 to serve German Reich propaganda purpose. It promoted the newly formed Wehrmacht , official editor was the new Oberkommando der Wehrmacht from February 1938 onwards. Aimed at young readers, the price was only 25 Reichspfennig , and illustrated in colour, mainly by Theo Matejko . In September 1944 it was cancelled. External links http www.bundesarchiv.de foxpublic D5DAB4D10A062212000000003DD5F87F findmittelinfo.html German Federal Bundesarchiv on Die Wehrmacht DEFAULTSORT Wehrmacht, Die Category Defunct magazines of Germany Category Wehrmacht Category Publications established in 1936 Category Publications disestablished in 1944 military mag stub Europe mag stub de Die Wehrmacht ... more details
unreferenced date May 2011 Infobox musical artist name Wehrmacht image background group or band origin Portland, Oregon Portland , Oregon , United States genre Thrash metal br Crossover thrash years active 1985 1989, 2009 present label New Renaissance Records website http www.myspace.com wehrmachtband Official Website current members Tito Matos br Marco Zorich br John Duffy br Shann Mortimer br Brian Lehfeldt Wehrmacht is an American thrash metal hardcore punk band, that was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1985. After releasing two albums on New Renaissance Records , the band split up. Later, both albums were re issued on one CD. Tito Matos and Marco Zorich went on to form Spazztic Blurr and Brian Lehfeldt went to Cryptic Slaughter . Matos now appears as a DJ under the name Mestizo69 and also continues as a vocalist. Lehfeldt also played with Sweaty Nipples and toured with Everclear band Everclear . His most recent projects are Drumattica and Tri polar . Shann Mortimer went on to play with the Nervous Christians and Bastard Children of the Roman Empire . He is now a criminal defense attorney. John Duffy has continued playing music, most recently with the band Kapuda . Despite the band s name they do not have Nazi ideals. Reunion On August 15, 2009, the band reunited to start playing again. Wehrmacht also played a show in Portland, Oregon on November 15, 2009 with Dirty Rotten Imbeciles ... Among their influences, the members of Wehrmacht list Destruction band Destruction , Slayer , Dirty Rotten Imbeciles D.R.I. , G.B.H , and Raw Power . Most label Wehrmacht as thrash metal , but they are also ... drums DEFAULTSORT Wehrmacht Category Musical groups established in 1985 Category Heavy metal musical groups from Oregon Category American thrash metal musical groups US metal band stub de Wehrmacht Band it Wehrmacht gruppo musicale no Wehrmacht band pl Wehrmacht grupa muzyczna pt Wehrmacht banda fi Wehrmacht yhtye ... more details
Infobox Television show name The Wehrmacht image caption genre Documentary creator writer director creat director developer starring theme composer opentheme endtheme composer country UK language English language English num series 1 num episodes 5 Production specific distributor Alba Home Vision executive producer co exec producer runtime 50 minutes Broadcast specific channel picture format audio format first aired 2007 last aired br Chronology preceded by followed by related External links website prod website The Wehrmacht is a 5 parts documentary that provides differentiated answers on the Wehrmacht role in the World War II based on the latest historical and comprehensive investigative research, bringing many new facts to light, among them documents proving for the first time ever, what many among the officers actually thought from Trent Park operation archives. ref http www.imdb.com title tt1342150 ref ref http www.amazon.co.uk dp B002BFGR2M ref ref http www.zdf.de ZDFde inhalt 22 0,1872,7121750,00.html ref ref http www.worldscinema.com 2010 04 ingo helm die wehrmacht eine bilanz aka.html ref Episode list The Blitzkrieg The Turning Point The Crimes Resistance To the Bitter End References reflist 1 History Shows DEFAULTSORT Wehrmacht Category Military television series ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A Kriegschule was a General Military School used for basic officer training in Nazi Germany up until the defeat in 1945. All Wehrmacht officers in World War II had passed through a Kriegsschule during their training. The Wehrmacht had five Kriegsschulen at Potsdam , Dresden , M nchen , Hannover , and Wiener Neustadt . Officer candidates, known as Fahnenjunker s undertook an extensive eight week course, aimed at giving them a good knowledge of the basics of command. After completion of the course, the officer candidate moved off to his chosen Truppenschule or branch of service school. An example of a Truppenschule is Panzertruppenschule I in Munster, but there were also schools catering for all branches of service. Engineer s, Physician s and Veterinarian s studied longer at a military Akademie instead progressing to a military branch school. See also Military training Military officer German Army Heer Wehrmacht Panzerwaffe Panzertruppenschule I Panzertruppenschule II Panzertruppenschule Kama coord missing Germany Category Military academies of Germany Category Military history of Germany during World War II Germany WWII stub de Kriegsschule ... more details
POV date June 2010 No footnotes date October 2008 The history of Poles in the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany , began with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. More than 225,000 citizens of the Polish Second Republic served in the Wehrmacht , ref Ryszard Kaczmarek Polacy w Wehrmachcie . Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krak w 2010. ISBN 978 83 08 04488 9 ref and some in the Kriegsmarine and Waffen SS . The majority of these Polish citizens were of German extraction, the so called Volksdeutsche , or members of ethnic minorities, such as Silesians, Kasubians, and Masurians whom the Nazis considered to be almost Germans. The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front World War II Eastern Front contained a sizable number of non Germans, but no Polish based unit was ever formed, partly due to Adolf Hitler s refusal to create such units until the later stages of the war though there were some Polish citizens of Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, and Lithuanian origin, both in the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS . See cited text in the Volunteers and non volunteers section German stance At the end of the Polish ... Among the citizens of interwar Poland who served in the Wehrmacht, the Secretary of State ... in the Wehrmacht many deserted or were captured by Allies and later joined the Polish Armed Forces ... revenge on the Soviets, but Hitler bluntly refused. The Polnische Wehrmacht From the spring of 1944 .... The Polnische Wehrmacht WWII Polnische Wehrmacht originated in operations Weiser Adler and Berta ... Im Dienst der Deutschen Wehrmacht In service of German Wehrmacht and tabs in the form of a hussar wing or Polish white red flag. On October 24, 1944, Wehrmacht Headquarters officially announced this decision ... this attempt to enlist Poles into German service largely moot. Wehrmacht affair J zef Tusk s conscription to Wehrmacht proved to be controversial during the Polish presidential election, 2005 , when it was called the Wehrmacht affair Polish Afera wehrmachtowa . ref name w24 2 pl icon Barbara ... more details
For other uses of OKW, see OKW disambiguation . Image Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht als Generalfeldmarschall.svg thumb 300px The command flag for a Generalfeldmarschall as the Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht 1941 1945 The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht OKW English language English Supreme Command of the Armed Forces was part of the command structure of the armed forces Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II . Genesis The OKW was formed on 4 February 1938 following the Blomberg Fritsch Affair , which led to the dismissal of Generalfeldmarschall and Reich War Minister Werner von Blomberg and the dissolution of the Reichskriegsministerium Reich War Ministry . The OKW replaced the War ... of the military leadership of the Wehrmacht . Organization Image Chef OKW Version 1.svg thumb Command Flag for the Chief of the OKW 1938 1941 By June 1938, the OKW comprised four departments Wehrmacht ... Abteilung Abwehr counter intelligence F hrungsgruppe W Abwehr in der Wehrmacht counter intelligence ... WFA L being merged into the Wehrmacht F hrungsamt and losing its role as a subordinate ... actually originated as Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces ... Wehrmacht 1962 . Category Military units and formations established in 1938 Category Wehrmacht Category ... ca Oberkommando der Wehrmacht cs Oberkommando der Wehrmacht da OKW de Oberkommando der Wehrmacht et Oberkommando der Wehrmacht es Oberkommando der Wehrmacht eu Oberkommando der Wehrmacht fr Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ko hr Oberkommando der Wehrmacht it Oberkommando der Wehrmacht he ... der Wehrmacht ja no Oberkommando der Wehrmacht pl Oberkommando der Wehrmacht pt Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ro Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ru sr fi Oberkommando der Wehrmacht sv Oberkommando der Wehrmacht tr Oberkommando der Wehrmacht uk vi Oberkommando der Wehrmacht zh ... more details
unreferenced date November 2011 File WMLSA1944.jpg right thumb 2nd Class 18 years The Wehrmacht Long Service Award Lang de Wehrmacht Dienstauszeichnung was a List of military decorations of the Third Reich military service decoration of Nazi Germany issued for satisfactory completion of a given years of military service. Each branch of the Wehrmacht Army, Navy, and Air Force maintained their own version of the Long Service Award and the decoration was issued for 4 4th class , 12 3rd class , 18 2nd class , 25 1st class , and 40 1939 special class Years of Service. Recipients of lower year awards would wear the decoration simultaneously with higher level decorations. The Long Service Award was retroactive throughout a service member s career, encompassing Reichswehr service as well as service dating during and before World War I . As such, there were a handful of 40 year awards presented, even though the Third Reich itself existed for only twelve. The Waffen SS , considered an integral part of the German armed forces during World War II, maintained their own SS Long Service Award with similar award criteria to the standard military version. The Nazi Party had a similar award, the NSDAP Long Service Award which was given in three grades of ten years, fifteen years, and twenty five years of service. Category Military awards and decorations of Germany Wehrmacht cs Slu ebn vyznamen n Wehrmachtu de Dienstauszeichnung Wehrmacht ru uk ... more details
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See also Division military , Military unit , List of German divisions in WWII German Army Heer , Wehrmacht ... Divisions of the Wehrmacht DEFAULTSORT 5th Mountain Division, Germany Category German mountain divisions ... 5. Gebirgs Division Wehrmacht fr 5e division de montagne Allemagne ko 5 it 5. Gebirgs Division Wehrmacht ru 5 sl 5. gorska divizija Wehrmacht sv 5. Gebirgs ... more details
name Raptis br Commons category Deportation of Jews of Ioannina March 1944 War crimes of the Wehrmacht ... by the Wehrmacht committed war crimes of their own, particularly on the Eastern Front World War ... of World War II judged that the Wehrmacht was not an inherently criminal organization, but that it had ... has come under question. The Israeli historian Omer Bartov , a leading expert on the Wehrmacht ref name Leitz, Bartov wrote in 2003 that the Wehrmacht was a willing instrument of genocide, and that it is simply untrue that the Wehrmacht was an apolitical, professional fighting force that had only a few ... German apologists stated after the war, the Wehrmacht was a criminal organization. ref name ... of the Wehrmacht as a way of creating the Wiederwehrhaftmachung of Germany, namely the total ... above coloured all the instructions that came to Wehrmacht troops in the summer of 1939 as a way of preparing ... crimes the Wehrmacht committed include Invasion of Poland See also German AB Aktion in Poland ... susperp weapons Automatic weapons numparts numpart dfens dfen Wehrmacht attitudes towards Poles .... ref name F rster 1998, page 271 Wehrmacht units killed thousands of Polish civilians during the September ... shootings where Wehrmacht troops would indiscriminately shoot all Poles on their own initiative ... After the end of hostilities, during the Wehrmacht s administration of Poland, which went on until October 25 1939, 531 towns and villages were burned the Wehrmacht carried out 714 mass executions, alongside ... fell victim to these atrocities. Approximately 60 of these crimes were committed by the Wehrmacht . ref name forgotten Wehrmacht soldiers frequently engaged in the massacre of Jews on their own, rather ... to the crimes, robberies and excesses committed by the army part of the Wehrmacht , the SS and the police ... 11, Wehrmacht soldiers threw hand grenades into a school building where they kept Polish POWs. ref name Datner Mass rapes Rapes were committed by Wehrmacht forces against women and girls during the Invasion ... more details
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Infobox military unit unit name 34th Infantry Division image File Divisionsabzeichen der 34. Infanterie Division.jpg 200px caption dates April 1936 &ndash April 1945 country flag Nazi Germany allegiance branch Heer 1935&ndash 1945 Heer type Infantry role size Division military Division The 34th Infantry Division , lang de 34. Infanterie Division , was a Nazi Germany German military unit that fought in the Battle of France and on the Eastern Front World War II Eastern Front during World War II . Commanding officers Generalleutnant Erich L dke , 1 April 1936 1 October 1937 Generalmajor Max von Viebahn, 1 October 1937 1 March 1938 Generalleutnant Friedrich Bremer, 1 March 1938 1 April 1939 General der Artillerie Hans Behlendorff , 19 July 1939 10 May 1940 Generalleutnant Werner Sanne , 11 May 1940 1 November 1940 General der Artillerie Hans Behlendorff , 1 November 1940 18 October 1941 Generalleutnant Friedrich F rst, 18 October 1941 5 September 1942 Generalleutnant Theodor Scherer , 5 September 1942 2 November 1942 General der Infanterie Friedrich Hochbaum , 2 November 1942 31 May 1944 Generalleutnant Theobald Lieb , 31 May 1944 1945 Oberst Ferdinand Hippel, 1945 See also Division military , Military unit German Army Heer , Wehrmacht , List of German divisions in WWII References Mitcham, S. German Order of Battle, Volume 1 , Stackpole, 2007, ISBN 0 8117 3416 1 Pipes, J. http www.axishistory.com index.php?id 1435 34. Infanterie Division . Retrieved 1 November 2010. http www.lexikon der wehrmacht.de Gliederungen Infanteriedivisionen 34ID R.htm 34. Infanterie Division . German language article at www.lexikon der wehrmacht.de. Retrieved 1 November 2010. Footnotes Reflist 2 Infantry Divisions of the Wehrmacht DEFAULTSORT 0 034 Category Military units and formations established in 1936 Category Infantry divisions of Germany during World War II Category German World War II divisions de 34. Infanterie Division Wehrmacht fr 34e division d infanterie Allemagne ru 34 ... more details
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German Army Heer Wehrmacht References Pipes, Jason. http www.feldgrau.com 9hg.html 9th Gebirgsjager ... at www.lexikon der wehrmacht.de. Retrieved April 12, 2005. Infantry Divisions of the Wehrmacht Category ... Division Wehrmacht ko 9 ru 9 sl 9. gorska divizija Wehrmacht uk 9 ... more details
. Mittler Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 285. Georg Tessin Verb nde und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht ... am Main 1967. Infantry Divisions of the Wehrmacht DEFAULTSORT 0 007 Category Infantry divisions ... disestablished in 1945 de 7. Infanterie Division Wehrmacht fr 7e division d infanterie Allemagne ... more details
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The 562nd Grenadier Division was a Germany German military unit during World War II . Organisation and history The Division military division was formed in July 1944 at Stablack near Preu isch Eylau , East Prussia , in the 29th mobilisation wave, with the following organisation Grenadier Regiment Ostpreu en 3 Grenadier Regiment Ostpreu en 4 Artillerie Regiment Ostpreu en 2 Divisionseinheiten Ostpreu en 2 In October 1944 it was reconstituted as the 562nd Volksgrenadier Division, with the following organisation Grenadier Regiment 1144 Grenadier Regiment 1145 Grenadier Regiment 1146 Artillerie Regiment 1562 F silier Kompanie 562 Divisionseinheiten 1562 As part of the to LV Corps of the German Fourth Army , it fought on its home territory opposing the Red Army s East Prussian Offensive . The division was destroyed in the Heiligenbeil pocket in March 1945. Commanders Major General Johannes Oskar Brauer 9 October 1944 22 January 1945 Major General Helmuth Hufenbach 22 January 1945 27 March 1945 See also Division military , Military unit , List of German divisions in World War II List of German divisions in WWII German Army Heer , Wehrmacht References http www.lexikon der wehrmacht.de Gliederungen Volksgrenadierdivisionen 562VGD.htm . German language article at www.lexikon der wehrmacht.de. Retrieved June 11, 2007. Germany WWII stub Infantry Divisions of the Wehrmacht Category Military units and formations established in 1944 Category German grenadier divisions Category Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 it 562. Grenadier Division ... more details
cleanup date February 2011 unreferenced date February 2011 infobox military unit unit name 561st Infantry Division br 561. Grenadierdivision image caption dates July October 1944 country flag Nazi Germany branch Heer 1935 1945 Army type Grenadier role size Division military Division command structure garrison garrison label nickname motto colors colors label march mascot battles anniversaries decorations battle honours disbanded Commanders commander1 commander1 label commander2 commander2 label commander3 commander3 label commander4 commander4 label notable commanders Insignia identification symbol identification symbol label identification symbol 2 identification symbol 2 label identification symbol 3 identification symbol 3 label identification symbol 4 identification symbol 4 label command structure name 561st Grenadier Division br 561. Grenadierdivision date July October 1944 parent subordinate 1141st Grenadier Regiment br 1142nd Grenadier Regiment br 1561st Artillery Regiment br 561st Fusilier Battalion The 561st Grenadier Division , designated 561. Grenadierdivision in German was a Wehrmacht division active during World War II. History The 561st Grenadier Division was raised in July 1944 and placed under the leadership of Major General Walter Gorn on July 21. The division was sent to occupy the central sector of the Eastern Front, which was rapidly diminishing due to the efforts of the Soviet s Red Army . In October, the division was re designated the 561st Volksgrenadier Division . See also List of German divisions in WWII External links http www.axishistory.com Axis History Database Infantry Divisions of the Wehrmacht DEFAULTSORT 0 561 Category Infantry divisions of Germany during World War II Category Military units and formations established in 1944 Category Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 ... more details
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